Utility Solar Blog

Thursday February 12, 2015

Earlier this month, Julia Hamm, SEPA's CEO, traveled to Minnesota to do something she, or any other SEPA representative, had never done before -- testify at a state legislative hearing. Her appearance at the hearing reflects the increasingly rapid transitions underway in the utility and solar industries, the resulting challenges for policy makers and SEPA’s own evolution to stay in front of these changes.

Wednesday January 28, 2015

A $705,830 competitive award from the Department of Energy’s SunShot Initiative will allow the Solar Electric Power Association (SEPA) to launch a groundbreaking research initiative aimed at accelerating the spread of community solar energy programs across the country.

Monday January 26, 2015

The Solar Electric Power Association (SEPA) has announced that Tanuj Deora has joined the educational nonprofit's executive team in the newly created position of Chief Strategy Officer and Executive Vice President. Deora will provide strategic direction and leadership for SEPA and oversee the organization’s advisory services, education, research and communications activities.

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Wednesday November 5, 2014

Julia Hamm, president and CEO of the Solar Electric Power Association, slept in Sunday, so she did not listen to the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change release its final report on the current state of climate change, live-streamed from Copenhagen. Still, reading the report's Summary for Policy Makers, she makes clear connections between the IPCC findings and trends in the United State's solar industry.

Thursday October 2, 2014

A few of us from the Solar Electric Power Association — myself, CEO Julia Hamm and our research director Mike Taylor — recently participated in a Solar Chat, or #SolarChat, as it is known on Twitter, which is where the hour-long social media panel discussion took place. Think of it as kind of a speed-dating approach to exploring some of the key issues facing our industry.

Monday September 15, 2014

The Solar Electric Power Association (SEPA) fact-finding mission to Germany is on the ground in Dusseldorf and already immersed in workshops with German energy leaders, talking about the country’s Energiewende, or energy transition, from fossil fuels and nuclear to renewables.

Tuesday June 3, 2014

Achievable. Flexible. These are the words the Environmental Protection Agency, and President Barack Obama, clearly want associated with the newly released proposals for cutting carbon emissions from power plants.